This is an analysis of the poem The Philosophic Pill that begins with:
I've wisdom from the East and from the West,
That's subject to no academic rule;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100011001 1010110101 11100010001 10100010001 11110010101 11110010001 1111110111 0111010101 11101010001 0111110001 11101010101 10101110101 11100010101 0101110000 1111010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; from is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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